Workman&#39;s glove



Sept. 5, 1944. l L BEEBE 2,357,574

WORKMAN s GLOVE Filed July 20, 1942 J70/Mer J 55555.

IN VENTOR.

Patented Sept. 5, 1944 WORKMAN S GLOVE Stuart J. Beebe, Wayne County,Ind., assignor to Richmond Glove Corporation, Richmond, Ind., acorporation of Indiana Application July 20, 1942, Serial No. 451,606

1 Claim.

My invention relates to improvements in the` palm structure of workmansgloves.

The main object of my invention is to provide a reenforcing memberover-lying the palm of the glove and serving to protect the normal glovepalm against wear and to protect the seam between the thumb-back and theglove palm notl only against wear but also against the strains incidentto the use of the glove for pulling on ropes or wires extended acrossthe palm.

In accordance with my invention a glove which has been completed in theordinary way has sewed to it over the entire palm an eXtra piece ofmaterial; this material being sewed to the material of the thumb-back onthe thumb side'of the seam between the thumb-back material and the palmand being sewed to the palm at the point of juncture at the palm withthe lingers. The reenforcing member also over-lying the seam between theback ofthe glove and the palm in the space lying between the thumb andthe indeX linger.

My invention is illustrated in the accompanying drawing in which,

Fig. 1 is a palm plan of a glove to which-my invention has been applied.f

Fig. 2 is a plan of the backY of the glove to which my invention hasbeen applied.

Fig. 3 is a sect-ion taken on the line 3 3 of Fig. l.

Fig. 4 is an outline of the reenforcing member before it has beenapplied to a glove.

Fig. 5 is a fragmentary drawing with the thumb lying against the palm.

The glove tI which my invention has been applied is here illustrated ashaving a gauntlet 4 sewed to a palm and back 6 and to the back of thethumb 1. In the particular glove to which my invention is applied, theregular palm piece 5 is sewed to the back 6 along the seams 9 and IU.The front of the thumb II is a part of the same piece of material whichforms the normal palm of the glove and the fronts of the index andlittle lingers. The reenforcing piece I2 which constitutes the gist ofmy invention shaped as shown in Fig. 4, is stitched to the glove palmadjacent the lingers -by a double line of stitching I4. It is stitchedto the glove palm along the seam between the palm and the back by a lineof stitching I5. It has an extension I6 lying between the thumb and theindex linger which is sewed to the back of the glove by a line ofstitching I1. It is sewed to the palm and to the gauntlet by a line ofstitching I8. It is sewed to the normal glove palm by la double line ofstitching I9 and to the thumb-back by a double line of stitching 20.In-order that the thumbback 'I may lie adjacent the palm 5 when thethumb is folded against the palm, the thumbback is made of a separatepiece of material. The seam ZI between the normal palm and the normalthumb-back is entirely covered by the reenforcing member I2, theattachment of the reenforcing member I2 to the thumb-back on the thumbside of the seam 2I and the attachment of the reenforcing member I2adjacent the linger crotches and adjacent the seam between the normalpalm and back relieves the seam 2l from the strain which it usuallyreceives when a glove'is used for pulling ropes or wires, particularlywhere the pull is in the direction across the palm away from the thumb.A tab or extension I6 being attached to the back 6 of the glove andspanning the seam between the palm and the back relieves that seam lyingbetween the index linger and the thumb of strain caused by pulling onropes or wires in the direction away from the thumb across the palm.

Although my invention is illustrated as applied to gloves having weltseams, it is not necessarily limited to this type of glove, theinvention being applicable to any glove in which there is a seam betweenthe glove palm and the thumb-back and which seam is subject to strain asthe result extension crossing the seam between the normal palm of theglove and the glo-ve back extending from the thumb to the index lingerand attached to the backof the glove, another portion of the reenforcingmember being attached to the back of the thumb and overlapping the seamby which the thumb back is attached to the normal palm of the glove, theparts of the reenforcing member remote from the thumb being attached tothe normal glove palm adjacent the linger and adjacent the seam betweenthe normal glove palm and the glove back at the point remote from thethumb, a cuff attached to the normal glove palm, one edge of thereenforcing member being attached to the cull and the glove palm alongthe seam between the cuff and the glove palm, and a reenforcing memberfor the palm side of the cull stitched to the reenforcing member for thepalm, and having a fold which protects the stitching between the palmreenforcing member and the cuff.

STUART J. BEEBE.

